Pat Taggart
@tagsecology.bsky.social
Applied ecology. Wildlife. Threatened species. Evolution. Disease. Pest management.
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cool new paper in @nature.com about moth migration, showing they use the stars to navigate up to the mountains in the summer 🧪🌍🐙
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Bogong moths use a stellar compass for long-distance navigation at night - Nature
Every spring, Bogong moths use the starry night sky as a compass to navigate up to 1,000 km towards their alpine migratory goal.
www.nature.com
June 19, 2025 at 8:22 PM
cool new paper in @nature.com about moth migration, showing they use the stars to navigate up to the mountains in the summer 🧪🌍🐙
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
After conducting a PERMANOVA to formally test for differences in animal communities, what is the best/most appropriate way to identify and test what specific species are driving community differences?
Desert salt lake photo for interest
Desert salt lake photo for interest
April 9, 2025 at 1:55 AM
After conducting a PERMANOVA to formally test for differences in animal communities, what is the best/most appropriate way to identify and test what specific species are driving community differences?
Desert salt lake photo for interest
Desert salt lake photo for interest
Are there any good, free online toxin/poison databases that describe toxin/poison classifications, modes of action, etc?
April 4, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Are there any good, free online toxin/poison databases that describe toxin/poison classifications, modes of action, etc?
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We’re looking for another ecologist here in SA. Please share widely and check if out yourself. Happy to chat to anyone interested and suitably qualified. Come join the team!
nrmjobs.com.au/jobs/2025/20...
nrmjobs.com.au/jobs/2025/20...
Ecologist
Bush Heritage Australia - Arid Rangelands or Evelyn Downs Reserve, SA
nrmjobs.com.au
March 3, 2025 at 9:58 AM
We’re looking for another ecologist here in SA. Please share widely and check if out yourself. Happy to chat to anyone interested and suitably qualified. Come join the team!
nrmjobs.com.au/jobs/2025/20...
nrmjobs.com.au/jobs/2025/20...
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Funded PhD project with scholarship at UTas with Menna Jones [email protected] (March 2025) www.utas.edu.au/research/deg...
March 17, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Funded PhD project with scholarship at UTas with Menna Jones [email protected] (March 2025) www.utas.edu.au/research/deg...
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Raising the dead ain’t so easy. Saving threatened species, that’s a thing we know how to do!
theconversation.com/woolly-mice-...
theconversation.com/woolly-mice-...
Woolly mice are cute and impressive – but they won’t bring back mammoths or save endangered species
“De-extinction” research is a poor alternative to helping ‘pre-extinction’ animals still alive today.
theconversation.com
March 6, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Raising the dead ain’t so easy. Saving threatened species, that’s a thing we know how to do!
theconversation.com/woolly-mice-...
theconversation.com/woolly-mice-...
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@tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social has been taken to court over her potential failure to protect threatened species. It is good to see public scrutiny if whether the Minister is fulfilling her legal obligation to safeguard these species & could set a precedent for other species.
shorturl.at/Se6AE
shorturl.at/Se6AE
March 4, 2025 at 9:42 AM
@tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social has been taken to court over her potential failure to protect threatened species. It is good to see public scrutiny if whether the Minister is fulfilling her legal obligation to safeguard these species & could set a precedent for other species.
shorturl.at/Se6AE
shorturl.at/Se6AE
We’re looking for another ecologist here in SA. Please share widely and check if out yourself. Happy to chat to anyone interested and suitably qualified. Come join the team!
nrmjobs.com.au/jobs/2025/20...
nrmjobs.com.au/jobs/2025/20...
Ecologist
Bush Heritage Australia - Arid Rangelands or Evelyn Downs Reserve, SA
nrmjobs.com.au
March 3, 2025 at 9:58 AM
We’re looking for another ecologist here in SA. Please share widely and check if out yourself. Happy to chat to anyone interested and suitably qualified. Come join the team!
nrmjobs.com.au/jobs/2025/20...
nrmjobs.com.au/jobs/2025/20...
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Study participants awarded 43% more money to people with whom they shared trivial or random similarities than to people who were different, suggesting that interindividual comparison, not just groupism, underlies discrimination. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
February 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Study participants awarded 43% more money to people with whom they shared trivial or random similarities than to people who were different, suggesting that interindividual comparison, not just groupism, underlies discrimination. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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For 7 years we have been studying how rat poisons affect native wildlife. Our initial work focussed on owls, then we found it in reptiles and today we have released our world first study showing it is killing Australia’s threatened quolls and the Tasmanian Devil. theconversation.com/lethal-secon...
Lethal second-generation rat poisons are killing endangered quolls and Tasmanian devils
Second generation rat poisons are so potent that they’re banned for home use in Europe and North America. But here, you can pick them up at Bunnings or Coles.
theconversation.com
February 17, 2025 at 4:39 AM
For 7 years we have been studying how rat poisons affect native wildlife. Our initial work focussed on owls, then we found it in reptiles and today we have released our world first study showing it is killing Australia’s threatened quolls and the Tasmanian Devil. theconversation.com/lethal-secon...
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Here’s every mangrove snake occurring in the NT. Found within about 30 minutes of each other during a recent slide around in the Darwin mangroves.
-Myron richardsonii (Richardson's mangrove snake)
-Fordonia leucobalia (white-bellied mangrove snake)
-Cerberus australis (Australian Bockadam)
-Myron richardsonii (Richardson's mangrove snake)
-Fordonia leucobalia (white-bellied mangrove snake)
-Cerberus australis (Australian Bockadam)
February 8, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Here’s every mangrove snake occurring in the NT. Found within about 30 minutes of each other during a recent slide around in the Darwin mangroves.
-Myron richardsonii (Richardson's mangrove snake)
-Fordonia leucobalia (white-bellied mangrove snake)
-Cerberus australis (Australian Bockadam)
-Myron richardsonii (Richardson's mangrove snake)
-Fordonia leucobalia (white-bellied mangrove snake)
-Cerberus australis (Australian Bockadam)
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Another video in my series on applied time series and forecasting with the {mvgam} #rstats 📦. This one introduces State Space hierarchical GAMs and GPs for tackling multivariate series youtu.be/2POK_FVwCHk?...
Time series in R and Stan using the mvgam package: hierarchical GAMs
YouTube video by Nicholas Clark
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February 4, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Another video in my series on applied time series and forecasting with the {mvgam} #rstats 📦. This one introduces State Space hierarchical GAMs and GPs for tackling multivariate series youtu.be/2POK_FVwCHk?...
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Fresh publication alert! 🔥
"Breeding #fattaileddunnarts in #captivity: revised practices to minimise #stress whilst maintaining considerations of wild #biology".
#glucocorticoids #endocrinology #captivemanagement #marsupials doi.org/10.1002/dvdy...
"Breeding #fattaileddunnarts in #captivity: revised practices to minimise #stress whilst maintaining considerations of wild #biology".
#glucocorticoids #endocrinology #captivemanagement #marsupials doi.org/10.1002/dvdy...
February 3, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Fresh publication alert! 🔥
"Breeding #fattaileddunnarts in #captivity: revised practices to minimise #stress whilst maintaining considerations of wild #biology".
#glucocorticoids #endocrinology #captivemanagement #marsupials doi.org/10.1002/dvdy...
"Breeding #fattaileddunnarts in #captivity: revised practices to minimise #stress whilst maintaining considerations of wild #biology".
#glucocorticoids #endocrinology #captivemanagement #marsupials doi.org/10.1002/dvdy...
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Does baiting feral cats, foxes and dingoes work?
Read the full paper by @ceb-uwa.bsky.social DECRA Research Fellow Yong Zhi Foo, and colleagues @danielwanoble.bsky.social, @tagsecology.bsky.social here: doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
Read the full paper by @ceb-uwa.bsky.social DECRA Research Fellow Yong Zhi Foo, and colleagues @danielwanoble.bsky.social, @tagsecology.bsky.social here: doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
Yong Foo, Dan Noble and I wrote a piece for @theconversation.com @aunz.theconversation.com
Have a read.
Poison baits were used on 1,400 feral cats, foxes and dingoes. We studied their fate to see what works theconversation.com/poison-baits...
Have a read.
Poison baits were used on 1,400 feral cats, foxes and dingoes. We studied their fate to see what works theconversation.com/poison-baits...
Poison baits were used on 1,400 feral cats, foxes and dingoes. We studied their fate to see what works
Feral cats, foxes and dingoes are routinely baited to protect wildlife and livestock. But does it matter what kind of bait is used? Do cats ignore it?
theconversation.com
February 4, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Does baiting feral cats, foxes and dingoes work?
Read the full paper by @ceb-uwa.bsky.social DECRA Research Fellow Yong Zhi Foo, and colleagues @danielwanoble.bsky.social, @tagsecology.bsky.social here: doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
Read the full paper by @ceb-uwa.bsky.social DECRA Research Fellow Yong Zhi Foo, and colleagues @danielwanoble.bsky.social, @tagsecology.bsky.social here: doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
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Yep!
"Baiting is an important and effective tool in reducing predator pressure on threatened species. But its efficacy – and the risk other animals could take the bait – means we have a responsibility to continually optimise its use..."
theconversation.com/poison-baits...
"Baiting is an important and effective tool in reducing predator pressure on threatened species. But its efficacy – and the risk other animals could take the bait – means we have a responsibility to continually optimise its use..."
theconversation.com/poison-baits...
Poison baits were used on 1,400 feral cats, foxes and dingoes. We studied their fate to see what works
Feral cats, foxes and dingoes are routinely baited to protect wildlife and livestock. But does it matter what kind of bait is used? Do cats ignore it?
theconversation.com
February 3, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Yep!
"Baiting is an important and effective tool in reducing predator pressure on threatened species. But its efficacy – and the risk other animals could take the bait – means we have a responsibility to continually optimise its use..."
theconversation.com/poison-baits...
"Baiting is an important and effective tool in reducing predator pressure on threatened species. But its efficacy – and the risk other animals could take the bait – means we have a responsibility to continually optimise its use..."
theconversation.com/poison-baits...
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Feral cats, foxes and dingoes are routinely baited to protect wildlife and livestock. But does it matter what kind of bait is used? Do cats ignore it?
Poison baits were used on 1,400 feral cats, foxes and dingoes. We studied their fate to see what works
theconversation.com
February 3, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Feral cats, foxes and dingoes are routinely baited to protect wildlife and livestock. But does it matter what kind of bait is used? Do cats ignore it?
Effectiveness of toxic baiting for the control of canines and felines
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Effectiveness of toxic baiting for the control of canines and felines
Toxic baiting has been widely adopted for the control of exotic canines and felines. However, high variability in findings make it difficult to gauge …
www.sciencedirect.com
February 3, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Effectiveness of toxic baiting for the control of canines and felines
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Yong Foo, Dan Noble and I wrote a piece for @theconversation.com @aunz.theconversation.com
Have a read.
Poison baits were used on 1,400 feral cats, foxes and dingoes. We studied their fate to see what works theconversation.com/poison-baits...
Have a read.
Poison baits were used on 1,400 feral cats, foxes and dingoes. We studied their fate to see what works theconversation.com/poison-baits...
Poison baits were used on 1,400 feral cats, foxes and dingoes. We studied their fate to see what works
Feral cats, foxes and dingoes are routinely baited to protect wildlife and livestock. But does it matter what kind of bait is used? Do cats ignore it?
theconversation.com
February 3, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Yong Foo, Dan Noble and I wrote a piece for @theconversation.com @aunz.theconversation.com
Have a read.
Poison baits were used on 1,400 feral cats, foxes and dingoes. We studied their fate to see what works theconversation.com/poison-baits...
Have a read.
Poison baits were used on 1,400 feral cats, foxes and dingoes. We studied their fate to see what works theconversation.com/poison-baits...
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Ice core data reveal that ancient Roman mining caused widespread lead pollution across Europe. A study shows that airborne lead raised childhood blood levels, reducing IQ by 2-3 points, suggesting cognitive impacts on entire populations.
In @science.org: www.science.org/content/arti...
In @science.org: www.science.org/content/arti...
January 31, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Ice core data reveal that ancient Roman mining caused widespread lead pollution across Europe. A study shows that airborne lead raised childhood blood levels, reducing IQ by 2-3 points, suggesting cognitive impacts on entire populations.
In @science.org: www.science.org/content/arti...
In @science.org: www.science.org/content/arti...
New paper shows acute impacts of tags on diving seabirds. Birds with heavier tags do shorter & shallower dives with slower ascent rates, and increased resting time between dives.
animalbiotelemetry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
animalbiotelemetry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Acute impacts of biologging devices on the diving behaviour of Manx shearwaters - Animal Biotelemetry
Biologging studies rely on the assumption that equipped animal behaviours are representative of the ones displayed by unequipped individuals. Identifying any tagging effects is therefore necessary to ...
animalbiotelemetry.biomedcentral.com
February 1, 2025 at 4:17 AM
New paper shows acute impacts of tags on diving seabirds. Birds with heavier tags do shorter & shallower dives with slower ascent rates, and increased resting time between dives.
animalbiotelemetry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
animalbiotelemetry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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I have a new article in @theconversation.com today.
In it, I detail some observations I made (during my honours research 9 years ago 😳) of young-adult male koalas engaging in affiliative behaviours.
Check it out. There's a cute little video too
theconversation.com/i-was-shocke...
In it, I detail some observations I made (during my honours research 9 years ago 😳) of young-adult male koalas engaging in affiliative behaviours.
Check it out. There's a cute little video too
theconversation.com/i-was-shocke...
‘I was shocked’: a scientist tracking koalas films startling behaviour between young males
Everyone thought koalas were solitary creatures. But a new paper reveals there is more to the social lives of koalas than previously thought.
theconversation.com
January 29, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I have a new article in @theconversation.com today.
In it, I detail some observations I made (during my honours research 9 years ago 😳) of young-adult male koalas engaging in affiliative behaviours.
Check it out. There's a cute little video too
theconversation.com/i-was-shocke...
In it, I detail some observations I made (during my honours research 9 years ago 😳) of young-adult male koalas engaging in affiliative behaviours.
Check it out. There's a cute little video too
theconversation.com/i-was-shocke...
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Interesting new paper on inference with observational data in ecology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Causal Inference With Observational Data and Unobserved Confounding Variables
As ecology tackles progressively larger problems, we are moving beyond the scales at which randomised controlled experiments are feasible. Using observational data for causal inference raises the pro...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 28, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Interesting new paper on inference with observational data in ecology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...